OR, we could learn to appreciate elephants for what they are, rather than for what they can do to entertain us. Elephants are highly intelligent, sensitive, interesting animals who - when left alone by humans - stay together in extended families of females (and young males) for life, caring for one another in a multitude of ways. Yet none of your examples features anything about real elephants (except possibly the one wild elephant in the list, who tellingly bears the name Troublesome, apparently because he is likely to challenge human dominance). The elephants you choose to list, except for that one, have been stolen from the wild and trained to perform tricks for human entertainment - and they have been trained, it is vital to note, through pain and punishment via tools like the hook you see in the first photo. This Elephant Appreciation Day, let's try appreciating elephants AS elephants, rather than reducing them to miserable objects of entertainment.